Thursday, 25 April 2013

Perks of the Job

School Dinners, anyone?

What my work lacks in terms of financial reward and job security it makes up for in fun. This thought occurred to me this morning as I stirred green food colouring into noodles and ransacked my house for plastic arachnids.

These goodies are for the second part of our film, where our bewildered new pupil experiences the trauma of having to eat in the school canteen. The pupils contributed red looking gore and thick tomato juice and ladled the concoction onto the plate you see pictured.The festering eggs were donated by my colleague, Jenny, who is working on this project with me. Or perhaps I should say Jenny's hens.

All lots of fun, but it does bring home how scary the whole experience of arriving in a new school in a different country must be.

We got through a lot of filming today! As well as the canteen scene we filmed our opening sequence in which the reluctant pupil is escorted to school by his mum.

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Film Project 2012

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I am an ESOL teacher living in the Shetland Islands and working in a community education centre for adult learners. I am interested in almost everything to do with English Language Teaching, but am particularly keen on resource design and creative and learner centred approaches in ELT. I use this blog to reflect on my teaching and to share ideas and resources.
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